What is the meaning of dying? Where is my mother now?
Expert Answer by Barbara Kate Repa
This is the hardest of questions -- made especially hard since your mother isn't sitting beside you to give you an easy answer, like she probably used to do.
Both the meaning of dying -- beyond the end of life and we know it -- and where and whether a person exists after death depend on your own personal beliefs.
If you are floundering with this, consider discussing the issue and the possibilities with people you trust: friends, spiritual advisors, close family members. Also consider the old-fashioned method of going into a library or bookstore or library and immerse yourself in a title or two that just beckon to you for some reason or another.
And be prepared for surprises: Many people find that the death of someone close, particularly a parent, opens their hearts and minds to new ways of looking at the issue and to new beliefs.
Answer
Death is certainly not whatever we choose to think it to be. It can only be understood in the context of the Author of Life, God. It is not about individualism, hedonism and minimalization which are all defieincies wrought for want of discipline. The answers are in the Church in which Jesus left us a sure voice on issues of faith and morals..."Upon this rock I will build my Church..." One lives within two areas of truth...faith and reason. Reason does not contain the answers to questions about life after death.
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